Restoring chickpea diversity to benefit farmers

By Shannon Beattie
Updated June 22 2020 - 4:41pm, first published 9:00am
A wild chickpea project pod. Picture by CCDM.
A wild chickpea project pod. Picture by CCDM.

RESEARCHERS at the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) are working to mine the germplasm of wild chickpeas and cross breed them with Australian domestic varieties, with the ultimate goal of making the pulse a more profitable, better yielding option as a break crop for Aussie growers.

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